Vim compressed help doc files

[Doug Wyatt]

Karsten Hopp wrote:
> Tim schrieb:
>> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 04:10 -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote:
>>> I recently upgraded to Fedora 7 and I've discovered that
>>> Vim's built-in help files don't display. 
>>
>> Works here, so it sounds like you've got a problem with your system,
>> rather than vim, in itself.  You might want to try verifying the
>> installation (see the rpm man file for verify instructions).
>>
> 
> You're probably using /bin/vi instead  of /usr/bin/vim.
> Starting vim by running 'vi' as root can cause this as the alias vi=vim 
> isn't set for root-
> 
>   Karsten
> 

Thanks for the replies.

I was working as root and, under a user login, vim :help *does*
work properly.  I should have checked this before posting.  Thnx!

However, aliasing doesn't enter into it, since I use 'vim' from
the cmdline and the X11 version from the start menu (gvim).

So, the problem only exists while running as root.  Irritating,
but not a show stopper.

Any ideas on how I might track down the cause?

Regards,
Doug Wyatt